“This past year was an incredible success for the Cato team,” says Shlomo Kramer, co-founder and CEO of Cato Networks. “We built an amazing, networking and security platform that’s been endorsed by customers across the globe. Our expanded executive team and channel relationships set the stage for an even stronger 2018.”

Cato Cloud Increased Capabilities And Global Network Footprint

Cato Cloud securely connects all enterprise locations, people, and physical and cloud datacenters into a global, encrypted and optimized SD-WAN in the cloud. During 2017, Cato enhanced Cato Cloud with:

Secure Global SD-WAN — Cato Cloud became the first secure, global SD-WAN for building wide area networks (WANs) based on MPLS services and Internet connections.

IPS as a Service — Cato delivered the first IPS integrated with an SD-WAN, bringing context-aware protection to users anywhere.

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) — Cato used MFA to improve the security for administrative, fixed user, and mobile access to Cato Cloud with MFA.

Today, Cato Cloud has a larger network footprint than than any other global, cloud-based SD-WAN with 39 points-of-presence (PoPs) around the globe, including two locations in China, Beijing and Shanghai, and twice the number of PoPs in North America as its closest competitor.

With Cato Cloud, Fisher & Company, an automotive components manufacturer, reduced its annual networking spend by a third when switching from MPLS to Cato Cloud, and all without compromising VoIP quality or application responsiveness. “Users definitely feel it in their user experience. Things, like screen refreshes of our ERP system, seem to be a lot quicker with Cato,” says Kevin McDaid, systems manager at Fisher.

In addition, more than 30 customers attested to Cato’s value and simplicity on the popular, G2 Crowd recommendations site:

“I do appreciate that by using our Cato Sockets to connect our companies together. It helps alleviate dropped packets and very slow connection speeds from one site to another,” saysTaylor

“If you are looking for secure low latency global secure SD WAN solution that includes Threat Prevention, look no further,” says Bhavin. He replaced his public WAN with Cato’s secure SD-WAN that includes low latency backbone.

“We’re using Cato for our headquarters, AWS, and one IPsec tunnel and what we like the most is the simplicity of connecting different sites and VPN users. We don’t have to worry about the encryption, security or configurations. It’s almost plug and play,” says Yassine.

Awards And Industry Acknowledgement

Gartner and other leading industry influencers acknowledged the innovation and maturity of Cato Cloud in 2017. Cato earned numerous awards for its pioneering work in simplifying security and networking including:

Gartner Cool Vendor — Cato was named a “Cool Vendor” in the Gartner “Cool Vendors in Security for Midsize Enterprises, 2017” report. The report suggests that IT leaders in midsize enterprises (MSEs) responsible for security and risk management should “Favor the selection of a product, when all else is equal, with a low total cost of ownership (TCO) that can be implemented, managed and supported with minimal IT resources.”

UX Award — Cato became the first SD-WAN provider to win a UX Award, the premier award for user experience (UX) design. The UX Awards are community-driven, independent awards for the UX profession selected by public crowd-voting and a rotating panel of expert judges from the top designers in the industry.